Entre Deux and Maastricht city center
from 02 to 31-10 2021 / every evening from 20.00 to 23.00

OPENING 02 October
20.00 / Entre Deux Maastricht / (entrance next to Dominicans)

‘Street View’ is a large-scale video art exhibition IN public space with 21 video works ABOUT the public space. In this new Viewmaster Project, subject and location coincide so strongly that they reinforce and influence each other.

The alienating present tense – which has a very large impact on the use and perception of public space – is the reason for making a powerful and topical follow-up to earlier group exhibitions in the public domain. A different, penetrating experience of what our public space can mean has arisen. This experience feeds into consideration of the street projections in Street View made by:

Jérôme Bucquet, Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Dries Depoorter, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Douwe Dijkstra, Jeroen Jongeleen, Karel van Laere, Siavash Naghshbandi, Paulien Oltheten, Su Tomesen, Kuang Yu Tsui + 2nd year fine arts of the Maastricht Institute of Arts (MIA ), Zuyd University of Applied Sciences

Street View is not a ‘corona’ exhibition. The 21 selected video works show no desolate squares and empty streets, no arrows in the street and no LED screens in parks with a prohibition text. The vast majority of the selected video works were created for the pandemic and the associated restrictions on public social life.

Street View therefore does show people on the street, shows the social relationships between people; shows habits and the alienation that arises when public codes and unwritten laws are broken. Street View shows the routines and everydayness that were once so obvious, but in 2021 feel very alienating.

Viewmaster Projects dives deeper into the meaning of public space with Street View. The exhibition presents different themes, presents different cultural and public manners from different parts of the world and activates today’s intensified view of public space. Communicating the value, scope and diversity of what a public space can be now makes this exhibition relevant, meaningful, poignant and educational.

21 windows
The exhibition not only presents a Western view of a Western culture, but also a Western view of public life in, for example, an African city, a South American metropolis or a city in transition in Asia. Conversely, the exhibition also gives an oriental view of the west, or a new view of our own culture because strange eyes have filmed. The artists in Street View are well-traveled and bring images of the street from more than 18 different cities from all over the world to Maastricht.

Empty shop windows in the Maastricht city center and the entre Deux shopping center turn into a window to streets and squares in Johannesburg (South Africa), Yogyakarta and Jakarta (Indonesia), Tirana and Durres (Albania), Medellín (Colombia), Taipei (Taiwan), Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Netherlands), London (England), São Paulo (Brazil), Seattle (United States), Tehran and Isfahan (Iran), Cologne (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Samara (Russia) and Paris (France) .